101.   The first cut will leave the institute barely a month to scramble to make up substantial funds.

102.   The Fed shaved a quarter percentage point off a key rate in July, the first cut in nearly three years, but has left rates unchanged since.

103.   The increase has seriously drained UNHCR resources, and with a shortfall in donations, the program providing relocation funds may be among the first cuts.

104.   The layoffs are the first staff cuts in more than a decade, the company said.

105.   The size of the first cut in interest rates in four months took the repo rate to a nine-year low and surprised markets and analysts.

106.   When it was time to excuse some of the applicants, Mitchem made the first cut.

107.   It was the first such cut in nearly three years.

108.   Asia-Pacific share prices, led by the Japanese market shot upwards on Friday, powered by the first cut in US interest rates for nearly three years.

109.   Mitchem survived the first cut of players and played in a six-inning simulated game.

110.   Sarajevo authorities gave no official explanation for the first cuts Sunday, which coincided with the first snowfall.